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11 - Developing Teachers as Researchers

Action Research as a School Development Approach

from Part II - Piloting Initiatives and Scaling Up to the Whole System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

By
Nazipa Ayubayeva  and
Colleen McLaughlin
Edited by
Colleen McLaughlin ,
Liz Winter  and
Natallia Yakavets
Colleen McLaughlin
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Liz Winter
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
Natallia Yakavets
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

This chapter describes two major action research projects undertaken with teachers in Kazakhstan. The aim was to promote teachers’ engagement in curriculum reform and teacher professional development through action research in schools. The two settings were very different and both researched using multiple sources of evidence to explore what we have learned about the conditions for and blocks and facilitators to action research in Kazakhstani schools. A key learning was that the political task of providing the enabling conditions is a top priority if action research is to fulfil its huge potential, and this will determine whether it becomes embedded or not.

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Teacher action research projectsresearch on impact
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Mapping Educational Change in Kazakhstan , pp. 189 - 202
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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